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eatmorchikin6464
10-09-2003, 02:55 PM
50 xcash to the person who finds 1,000,000!

!=factorial for those who dont know.
Freddy
10-09-2003, 03:19 PM
1,000,000 what?
The First
10-09-2003, 03:25 PM
1,000,000! is... "error: overflow" *kicks calculator*

But seriously now, anyone who knows what a factorial is will know that even 100! is a tremendously large number. 1,000,000! is well... you do the math.
lazy21236
10-09-2003, 03:34 PM
is it infinity?

oh, sweet :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: this was my 200th post!!!!
yeah!!!! 8) :lol: 8) :lol:
i know, i'm getting too excited but i usually quit a forum after around 100.
The First
10-09-2003, 03:45 PM
No, infinity is a neverending "Number". 1,000,000! is an extremely large number, but it does have an end, amazing enough. What I do find oddly interesting is that 0.5! does exist. And what is it? its: half of the Square Root of Pi... anyone care to explain this? Cause I can't, to be honest....
Enigma
10-09-2003, 07:31 PM
so basicaly there is no prize, or contest
Diamond187
10-10-2003, 01:27 AM
my guess would be approximately 1,000,000^500,000, but that's a pretty rough estimate.
JOYA
10-10-2003, 05:07 AM
I don't have a clue about what you're talking about. :lol:
lazy21236
10-10-2003, 04:19 PM
it it
15641571742567421574215674215674154112742165472165 4716572165721654
21875981247659875176213417912738879785465463121324 56465789465465213132654789789456151231545698748615 6154561218643216842316545156456 e 54465123212346587945651631231234657895461513132486 78984653113246589784465131234845132123488464513246 5486465321
The First
10-10-2003, 04:30 PM
With spaces? Or without?
lazy21236
10-10-2003, 04:39 PM
dunno....

i just bashed at the keys until i thought i had a sufficient size, so i didn't know that i hit the enter key at all.
Diamond187
10-11-2003, 02:17 AM
I just based my estimate on saying that 1mil factorial has a million multiplied by a million minus one, which is close to a million squared, and so every subsequent factor is approximately a million squared, but that is obviously not true for at least half the numbers (more than half really, but I was too lazy to work out a reasonable approximation) so I halfed the power. It made sense at the time.